Beara Peninsula

Part of: West Cork / County Cork / Ireland

Also: Beara, Bear, Beare, Berehaven peninsula

"Beara" is the modern Irish spelling. 19th-century English-language newspapers almost always wrote "Berehaven" (the harbour town) or "Bere" (the barony). All three refer to the same peninsula.

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Sources at this place (33)

undated — T. D. Sullivan — *Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept*T. D. Sullivan's Bantry/Berehaven/O'Sullivan Sept — the 19th-c. Bantry-nationalist history of the family's region
T. D. (Timothy Daniel) Sullivan's local history of Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept — the late-19th-c. nationalist treatment of the same Beara region t…
undated — Family photographs (a photographed colour print)The O'Sullivan Seer's house at Carraig a Phréacháin, Beara
A modern colour photograph (re-photographed from a print) of the house associated with the **O'Sullivan Seer** ("the Seer O'Sullivan" / an Sáirséalach-type Bear…
undated — Castletownbere local-history heritage guide / town-walk pamphletCastletownbere local-history walking-tour pamphlet — the family's market town
A local-history walking-tour pamphlet for **Castletownbere** (= the principal town of the Beara peninsula, the administrative/market centre for the Murphy paris…
undated — *From Beara To Butte* — companion EPUB to the documentary of the same name*From Beara To Butte* — the central documentary/EPUB on the very migration this archive narrates
Companion EPUB to the **"From Beara to Butte" documentary** — the central secondary source on the same Beara peninsula → Butte, Montana migration arc that this …
1838-02-09 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland1838 Shea-Sullivan marriage at Allihies (Beara peninsula)
Roman Catholic parish marriage record from Allihies, west Beara peninsula. **Date is 1838, not 1938** (the inbox filename mislabel led to a quick re-check; orig…
1846-12-31 — The Times, p.8
A correspondent writing from Berehaven, on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, describes the collapse of famine relief on the 10th of December 1846, when public w…
1850-04-07 — Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland, Eyeries (Diocese of Kerry), Microfilm 04286 / 05Baptism of Patrick Murphy, 7 April 1850, Ballycruane: son of James Murphy and Margaret Uonhi
The Eyeries baptism register for 7 April 1850, the first entry of the month: "Pat. Murphy" in the margin, and in the entry "P.", lawful son of "Jacobi Murphy et…
1855-02-20 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots Ireland (Church Marriage Record)Margaret Shea's FIRST marriage — to John Sullivan, 20 Feb 1855, Eyeries
Roman Catholic church marriage record from Eyeries parish. - Date: 20 Feb 1855 - Husband: **John Sullivan** of **Agroom** (= Ardgroom), Roman Catholic; father s…
1858-04-04 — Catholic parish registers at the National Library of Ireland, Eyeries (Diocese of Kerry), Microfilm 04286 / 05Baptism of Patrick Murphy, 4 April 1858, Gort: son of Joseph Murphy and Margaret Crounhane
The Eyeries baptism register for 4 April 1858: "Patricius Murphy" in the margin, and the entry "Patricium Murphy", lawful son of "Josephi Murphy" and Margaret "…
1865-06-09 — Marriage Returns, Superintendent Registrar's District of CastletownMarriage of Myles Lyne (widower) and Margaret Shea alias Sullivan (widow) of Ardgroom, 9 June 1865
Entry 10 of four 1865 marriages registered together on this page. **Myles Lyne** (Full age, **Widower**, Farmer, of [Letterfinneen?], father **Jeremiah Lyne**, …
1872-04-14 — Irish Family History Foundation — Kerry Genealogy (Roots Ireland)Patrick Lyne baptism — b. 7 Apr 1872 Gurtavallig Kerry; parents Christopher Lyne + Mary Shea (likely JJM's AOH-sentinel friend)
Roman Catholic baptism record from Tuosist parish, Co. Kerry. - Name: Patrick Lyne - Date of Birth: 7 April 1872 - Date of Baptism: 14 April 1872 - Address: Gu…
1873-07-01 — Archaeologia Cambrensis, p.286INSCRIBED STONES OF WALES.
Unsigned letter to the editor of Archaeologia Cambrensis (the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association) by an Irish antiquarian, replying to and again…
1881-02-13 — Marriage Returns, Superintendent Registrar's District of CastletownMarriage of Patrick Murphy and Ellen Lyne, 13 Feb 1881, Ardgroom
Civil marriage return from the Superintendent Registrar's District of Castletown, second page (page 66), entry No. 7 of four marriages registered February 1881.…
1883-07-29 — Parish of Eyeries, Diocese of Kerry — Register of BaptismsBirth and Baptismal Certificate — James Murphy (born 26 July 1883, baptized 29 July 1883)
Roman Catholic Birth and Baptismal Certificate issued 27 October 1971 by P.P. Thomas McMahon of Eyeries, transcribing the original baptismal register entry of 2…
1884-02-23 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West Roots IrelandPatrick 'Tailor' Sullivan + Catherine Murphy marriage — 23 Feb 1884 Eyeries (Catherine = JJM's paternal aunt + godmother)
Roman Catholic church marriage record. - Date: 23 Feb 1884 - Husband: **Patrick Sullivan** of **Slieve** — known in the family as **"Patrick Sullivan Tailor"*…
1890-04-28 — Irish Examiner, p.4THE FISHING INDUSTRY IN BEREHAVEN.
A prosperous-season report on the **Berehaven spring fishery**: over 200 fishing smacks (from Arklow, Dublin, France, Isle of Man) and ~50 yawls working the gro…
1890-11-12 — Kerry Sentinel, p.3THE IMPENDING DISTRESS. CASTLETOWNBERE.
Report of a public representative meeting at the **Castletownbere Union** boardroom, held after routine board business on a Thursday in November 1890, to hear t…
1893-07-22 — The Skibbereen Eagle, p.2SAD FATALITY NEAR CASTLETOWN-BERE.
Skibbereen Eagle death-and-inquest brief about a fatal cart accident on the road between Castletownbere and Eyeries on the evening of Wednesday 19 July 1893. *…
1907-11-26 — Fall River Globe, p.8"MORTY OGE" AND JOHN PUXLEY.
A Fall River notice promoting a serialised history of the Beara peninsula running in "The Searchlight," a weekly published in Brockton, Mass. by **William D. Dw…
1916 — O'Halloran, W. — *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork*W. O'Halloran's 1916 history of West Cork — the standard secondary source for Beara antiquities, Morty Oge/Puxley, and the regional past
W. O'Halloran's 1916 *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork* — the standard regional history of the Beara/Bantry world the Murphys c…
1916 — Chapter extract from O'Halloran (1916), Chapter XIX (10) — "Puxley and the Famous Morty Oge"O'Halloran 1916, Chapter XIX — 'Puxley and the Famous Morty Oge'
The Puxley/Morty Oge O'Sullivan chapter from W. O'Halloran's 1916 West Cork history, held as a distinct citable extract alongside the full book. Opens: "A Welsh…
1918-12-10 — The Anaconda Standard, p.7ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX
Most consequential single clipping in this Stage 6 ingest for the Beara / Butte family arc. James M. McCarthy of the Centennial Brewing company in Butte receive…
1918-12-10 — The Butte Miner, p.5M'CARTHY'S NEPHEW IS DROWNED NEAR IRELAND
Companion to the Anaconda Standard's "ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX" on the same day — same drowning, different paper, more compact report. James J. McCarth…
1920-12-31 — Westropp, Thomas Johnson — *The Promontory Forts and Traditions of the Districts of Beare and Bantry, Co. Cork* (journal article)Westropp 1920 — promontory forts and folk-traditions of the Beare-and-Bantry districts (JRSAI)
T. J. Westropp's 1920 *Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland* article on the **promontory forts and associated folk-traditions of the Beare and…
c.1980s — Family oral-history notes (Emma Verling interview transcript fragments)Emma Verling interview notes — Harrington–Murphy–Hanley family of Allihies (oral history)
Brief oral-history note fragments — probably interview notes the user (or a relative) took during a phone or tape interview with **Emma Verling** about her Harr…
1992-05-29 — The Montana Standard, p.4Tracing Murphys back to Ireland
ARCHIVE-DEFINING CLIPPING. A "letter to the editor" published in the Montana Standard's "Our readers speak" section on 29 May 1992, submitted by Donald V. Murph…
1999 — 'Stories as told by Riobard O'Dwyer', on the IRL-KERRY pages at RootsWeb; first sent by him to the IRL-KERRY mailing listRiobard O Dwyer, 'The Dream': his uncle Robert and the four men drowned with him off Pointe Ranna, 12 Nov 1918
Riobard O Dwyer's own telling of the seine-boat drowning of 12 November 1918 and of what his family believed followed from it. In my own words; his text is his …
2006-10-07 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Famine oral history — 'Norry Tenpenny' of Allihies and the death-march to Bunmahon (Black '47)
A Beara Famine oral history relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer. In my own words (verbatim text held privately in notes.md per the NEHGS CC BY-NC-ND restriction): "Norr…
2006-11-25 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara folktale — 'Tis a hard life the women have' (a Dursey Island role-reversal tale)
A humorous Beara folktale relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights). A man ploughing on **Dursey Island (Baoi Bheara)** comes in to din…
2008-02-16 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer "Annals of Beara" — Berehaven Parishes rosterAnnals of Beara (Ó Dwyer) — Berehaven parishes roster page 21 of 29
Single page (21 of 29) from the **published rootsweb version of Riobárd Ó Dwyer's "Annals of Beara"** — the Beara-peninsula genealogy compendium the user has fl…
2012-01-31 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara wit — 'An Irish Prayer' (from his Butte 'From Beara to Butte' visit), 'Dan and the Pope,' 'Every old stocking finds an old shoe'
Three pieces of Beara wit relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **An Irish Prayer** — Ó Dwyer recounts that **while in Butte, …
2012-02-01 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara tales — 'The Carpenter's Coffin' and the blacksmith 'dentists' of Adrigole and Eyeries
Two humorous Beara folk-tales relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer (verbatim in notes.md per NEHGS rights): - **The Carpenter's Coffin** — Paddy the carpenter lies in a …
2026-05-11 — Email correspondence — Oliver Murphy (Beara-side researcher) to Luke Murphy (user)Oliver Murphy (Beara) → Luke Murphy email: full Ballycrovane Murphy genealogy back to John Murphy b.1720; confirms PJM = Patrick 'Paddy' Murphy son of Seamus Mor
Extraordinary email correspondence from **Oliver Murphy of Beara/Cork** (a distant cousin) to the user **Luke Murphy**, laying out the deep Ballycrovane Murphy …

Sources at child places (31)

undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.412: JOHNNY O'DWYER & ELLEN LYNCH (CAOLRUA) — 14 children incl. Robert (1918 Pointe Ranna drowning victim, IRA Ballycrovane Co. captain) + the 1921 Black-and-Tans house-burning during the War of Independence
Dwyer family genealogy page. The O'Dwyers of Caolrua are cousin-adjacent to our Murphy line — the 1918 Pointe Ranna fishing-boat drowning that killed Robert O'D…
undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.413: Caolrua O'Dwyer family continued — Pat O'Dwyer Butte mining career 1923-1930 + Mike O'Dwyer US Army WWII + (C) JOHN O'DWYER & KATHLEEN MCCARTHY next generation
Continuation of p.412 entry. Continues Johnny O'Dwyer + Ellen Lynch's children list from child (6) Pat onwards, then picks up section (C) for the next generatio…
undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume II (Norelene O'Dwyer's printed copy; a different setting from the repository's screenshot copy)Annals of Beara Vol II, MURPHY (BALLYCROVANE): the whole (A)-(C) opening in Norelene O'Dwyer's copy, adding the thirteenth child of Jim and Julia, Julia (Sept. 25th 1909)
The same three sections as the repository's screenshot copy (_annals-of-beara-vol-ii-p270-section-a-patrick-murphy-ballycrovane), here photographed as one print…
undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.270: 11-children family + Jer Harrington & Katie Murphy + PADDY (TAILOR) O'SULLIVAN & KATE MURPHY (Ardgroom Village)
Three-family page. The load-bearing third entry confirms the **Paddy (Tailor) O'Sullivan + Kate Murphy** household at Ardgroom Village — the family central to t…
undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.270 sections (A)-(C): Patrick Murphy of Ballycrovane → Seamus Mór Murphy + Peig Uonhi → Jim Murphy + Julia O'Sullivan (Seer)
Three-section family entry covering three generations of Murphys at Ballycrovane: **(A) PATRICK MURPHY** had three children: (1) Michael, m. Margaret McCarthy …
undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, ~p.275: PADDY MOR MURPHY & MARGARET MURPHY (BANK) — Paddy Mor as brother of Seamus Mor; both sons of an older Patrick Murphy of Ballycrovane
Key cross-reference page. Establishes that Paddy Mor Murphy (of Bank townland) was **a brother of Seamus Mor Murphy** who married Peig Uonhi — i.e., they were b…
1864-05-28 — irishgenealogy.ie church records (Kerry RC, Eyeries), transcription index pageBaptism of Michael Murphy of Ballycrovane, 28 May 1864, father 'James NR', mother Margaret Harrington: Seamus Mór's youngest child in the register
Index transcription of the Eyeries register: "Baptism of MICHAEL MURPHY of BALLYCROVANE on 28 May 1864"; father "JAMES NR" (surname not recorded in the transcri…
1866-02 — Ireland Civil Registry of Births — District of Kilcatherine, Union of Castletown, Co. Cork1866 Kilcatherine RD birth register page — contains a Hanley-maiden-name entry (pending vision pass)
Single certified-true-copy page from the 1866 Kilcatherine RD birth register. User-labeled "Katherine Hanley 1866 Birth Register" — suggests this page contains …
1872-05-10 — Ireland Civil Registry of Deaths — District of Kilcatherine, Union of Castletown, Co. CorkMyles Lyne (Sr.) civil death cert — d. 10 May 1872 Ardgroom, age 81, farmer (= 1839 Kenmare registry-notice Myles?)
Irish Civil Registry of Deaths certified true copy of Entry No. 400 from the 1872 Kilcatherine District Register, recording the death of **Myles Lyne**. **DEAT…
1879-02-02 — Family headstone photograph (private)Cornelius Murphy family headstone (Cork) — four Murphys 1879/1907/1912/1944
Marble Catholic headstone with carved IHS monogram and floral scroll. Four Murphys commemorated. Inscription (wording as carved; stops, commas and line breaks s…
1881-12-09 — Bismarck Tribune, p.2Outrageous.
A one-sentence wire item from Dublin, reprinted in the Bismarck Tribune on 9 December 1881, reporting that the police at Castletown — i.e. Castletown Berehaven,…
1881-12-10 — The Times, p.6
The Times's correspondent reports from Castletown Berehaven on the petty sessions of 9 December 1881. Hannah M. Reynolds (Dublin Ladies' Land League) was charge…
1881-12-24 — The Herald (Glasgow ed.), p.5A LADY LEAGUER SENT TO PRISON.
The Glasgow Herald's account of the same Castletown Berehaven petty sessions hearing of 23 December 1881 covered in the Leeds Mercury the same day. The substant…
1881-12-24 — The Leeds Mercury, p.3CHARGE AGAINST MISS REYNOLDS.
The Leeds Mercury's Cork correspondent reports on the post-adjournment hearing at Castletown Berehaven petty sessions of Friday 23 December 1881 — two weeks aft…
1882-01-13 — The Evening Mail, p.1IRELAND'S HEROINE.
The Stockton California Evening Mail's front-page account of the Reynolds case, with sub-headlines "PRETTY MISS REYNOLDS, THE LADY LAND LEAGUER" and "Her Influe…
1883-08-02 — Republic of Ireland Civil Registration — Birth RegisterJJM Sr's civil birth cert — born 2 Aug 1883 Ardgroom; father Patrick Murphy SHOEMAKER; mother Ellen Murphy formerly Lyne
Republic of Ireland Civil Registration Birth Certificate (reproduction issued 8 November 2013 by Helen Foley, Authorised Officer) transcribing the original 1883…
1888-04-07 — Irish Family History Foundation — Cork South West (Roots Ireland)Honora (Nora) Sullivan baptism — b. 30 Mar 1888 Slieve; daughter of Patrick Sullivan + Catherine Murphy
Roman Catholic baptism record from Eyeries parish, Co. Cork. - **Name**: Honora Sullivan - **Date of Birth**: 30 March 1888 - **Date of Baptism**: 7 April 1888…
1901-03-31 — Census of Ireland 19011901 Ireland Census — Michael Murphy household (Ardgroom): JJM godfather candidate
Census of Ireland Form A for the night of Sunday 31 March 1901. Single Murphy household in Ardgroom, headed by Michael Murphy: 1. Michael Murphy, Head of Fam…
1907-07-25 — The Sagebrushers — Jim Murphy's Travelogue through Yellowstone National Park, Told in His Own WordsThe Sagebrushers — JJM's diary of the July-August 1907 Yellowstone Park trip
Diary kept by **James J. Murphy** (person_james_murphy_son_of_pat_and_ellen) of a month-long horse-drawn wagon trip from Butte to Yellowstone National Park and …
1911-09-09 — The Butte Daily Post, p.2ST. LAWRENCE'S.
Society-column entry under the "St. Lawrence's" parish heading (Centerville's Catholic church). Flurry Sullivan, "a well-known and popular young man of this ci…
1918-12-14 — The Butte Independent, p.1Irish Fishing Village Is Shrouded in Gloom of Sad Drowning Fatality.
The Butte Irish weekly's report of the drowning at Eyeries in November 1918, printed four days after the Butte dailies. It introduces a letter to James J. McCar…
1922-03-17 — The Anaconda Standard, p.8Those Who Attended.
Roll-call from the banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Thornton hotel, Butte, on the eve of St. Patrick's Day (Thursday 16 March 1922; reported i…
1967 — Murphy family papersMurphy Family Tree, 1967: 'Patrick Murphy, Balykrewan, County Cork, Ireland'; Ellen Lyne (1859-1935)
A hand-lettered chart of the ancestors of the children of James J. Murphy Jr. and Marie A. Schueller, made in 1967, the year of Terese Murphy's letter of 9 Apri…
1967-04-09 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Dan, 9 April 1967: 'Dad was born in Balykrewan ... about the year 1854'; her mother's two fathers
Patrick and Ellen's daughter Terese answers family-history questions from "young Dan": Dan Murphy (born 1954), then twelve or thirteen, who had a school family-…
1971-09-20 — Murphy family papersTerese Murphy to Imelda, 20 Sept 1971: her father's sister married 'Tailor Sullivan'; his father 'left for America some months before he was born'
Terese writes to her niece Imelda, who is about to fly to Ireland, and tells her what she learned on her own trip of 1938. On her brother James: he spent his e…
2018 — Norelene O'Dwyer, 'The Ballycrovane Seine Fishing Tragedy, 1918', centenary article in the annual Christmas newsletter (Ardgroom/Eyeries), 2018Norelene O'Dwyer's 2018 centenary article on the Ballycrovane seine-fishing tragedy: the five dead with ages, and the survivor Patie Healy, 19
A local historian's centenary account (she is Robert O'Dwyer's niece) of the loss of the follower off Pointe Reanna, Kilcatherine, on 12 Nov 1918. The dead as p…
2022-09-06 — Dan Murphy's notebook from the Beara trip of September 2022Dan Murphy's Castletownbere library notes, Sept 2022: 'James Murphy + Mary O'Leary ... Patrick's mother + Father s/B in Eyeries in book'; 'Mary Sullivan Patrick's sister'
Three notebook pages from the father-and-son visit to Castletownbere in September 2022 (the librarian named is Dorothy Brophy). Page 6 holds the family lines, v…
2025-01-10 — Emma Verling's English translation of Martin's "Gort Broc" (Badger's Field), story 102, "The Sinking of the Béal a' Chrobháin Follower"The seanchaí's account of the Ballycrovane follower lost in November 1918, in Emma Verling's translation from 'Gort Broc'
A first-hand storyteller's account ("That happened during my lifetime"), from the Irish-language book "Gort Broc", of the loss of the follower of the Béal a' Ch…
2026-04-19 — Joe Murphy's family research, April 2026 (emails to Dan and Luke Murphy: 'Re: can you see this? - Patrick murphy analysis', 'Part #3-Patrick's life story', 'Patrick's Life Story-Part #4')Joe Murphy's five irishgenealogy.ie printouts (April 2026): what they actually show against what the emails said
Joe Murphy's emails of 16-20 Apr 2026 built a case that Patrick Murphy was the Patrick baptised 7 Apr 1850 at Ballycrovane, son of James Murphy and Margaret Har…
~2026-05 — Family research deck — Luke Murphy (user) self-prepared PowerPointLuke Murphy's Murphy Family Research deck — Ancestry-tree summary cards for great-great-grandparents back through 3rd-great-grandparent generation
The user's own self-prepared family-research PowerPoint containing Ancestry.com tree screenshots (summary card per ancestor) for the documented direct family ba…
2026-05-27 — Luke Murphy family tree (Ancestry.com)
Luke Murphy's personal family tree as exported from Ancestry.com on 27 May 2026. GEDCOM 5.5.1 format, UTF-8. Contains 1480 individuals across 460 families. Par…